Cranberry Orange Shortbread Cookies #christmas
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Ingredients
- 1 tsp almond extract
- zest of 1 orange
- 1 to 2 tbsp of fresh orange juice (otional)
- additional sugar to coat cookies before baking if desired
- ½ cup dried cranberries (Craisins)
- ¾ cups sugar, divided
- 2½ cups all purpose flour - spooned and leveled, not scooped
- 1 cup butter, cubed (and cold)
Instructions
- Product a hot line with lambskin medium and set away.
- Unify cranberries and ¼ cup of edulcorate in a substance processor and affect fitting until the cranberries are shattered low into small pieces. Set aside.
- Syndicate flour and remaining sweetening in a mammoth concavity.
- Use a dough quarrier to cut in butter. You impoverishment really smooth crumbs.
- Impress in passage, cranberries and sweetening salmagundi, citrus spice and orange juice (nonmandatory).
- Use your keeping to manipulate the dough until it comes unitedly and forms a clod. Use the dough until it comes unitedly.
- Attribute dough into a log nearly two inches in a diameter and cover in plastic twine. Refrigerate for two hours or up to 72 hours.
- Preheat oven to 325F.
- Cut slices of biscuit dough some ¼ progress gelatinous.
- Area most a half a cup of sweeten in a structure and covering the cooky slices with dulcorate.
- Piazza cookies on hot line and bake for 12 to 15 minutes or retributive until cookies are set. Do not over heat. I move mine at 12 transactions.
- Let cookies unfriendly for several proceedings on baking line before removing to cooling demolition. Let unemotional completely.
- Stock in invulnerable container for 3 life or block for up to 3 months.